Digital health company Babylon Healthcare has contacted more than a dozen clinical commissioning groups as it pushes for expansion across the country, including extending its NHS GP partnership to two new cities.

CCGs in Derbyshire approve plans to create single commissioning organisation across thier STP footprint by April 2018
Plan to appoint a single accountable officer in the near future
The four clinical commissioning groups in Derbyshire are to begin recruitment for a single shared chief officer,

Poor quality GP surgeries scattered across the Midlands and East region, with the worst three performing CCGs in Essex, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire
Three neighbouring CCGs in south Essex appear in the 10 CCGs with the highest percentage of inadequate or requires improvement CQC

Nottingham University Hospitals Trust name preferred organisation to merge with Sherwood Forest Hospitals
NUH proposal was chosen because if offered the best long term benefits to patients
The trust will provide immediate assistance ahead of a formal merger
STRUCTURE: Nottingham University

East Midlands vanguard project awarded £960,000 from NHS England
Consortium of seven trusts shares radiology patient images
Money needs to be spent by end of 2015-16
FINANCE: A consortium of seven East Midlands acute trusts has been awarded £960,000 to support its work as a vanguard site